In the evangelical Word commentary, RAG too writes

"Jesus'
saying in 7:15 explained
with reference to what one eats by 7:18b-19 means
that no foods, even those forbidden by the Le-vitical law (Lev 11-15),
could defile a person before G d. In essence, Jesus 'makes all foods clean.'"

In his commentary in the time-honored Anchor Bible, Joel Marcus writes that
"anyone who did what the Markan Jesus does in our passage, denying this dietary distinction & declaring all food to be permissible (7:19), would immediately be identified as a seducer who led the people's heart astray from G d (cf. 7:6)
& from the holy commandment he had given to Moshe (cf. 7:8,9,13)."

It should be noted clearly,
lest there be anything misleading here,
that Marcus does consider Mark a "Jewish Christian," albeit a much more radical one than Matai
(we've heard & seen this also already several times before
& will probably pay attention
to this again &
again?)!

This view
is the commonly held interpretation of the passage
in both the pious & scholarly traditions.

"Mark, our earliest gospel, offers a more reliable standard [than Paul/SP];
and it says that Jesus abrogated laws of food & purity
& violated the Sabbath"!

[The strange fact remains
that we can find almost any 'explanation' to these laws & their interpretation
during at least 20 centuries among Jews, Christians, Moslims within or without temples,
synagogues, churches, mosks, sects &
other strange groups
~~~~]!

DB108/109:
BUT DID THE MARKAN JESUS DO THIS SACRILIGIOUS THING,
AND IS THIS PASSAGE REALLY A PARTING OF THE WAYS
BETWEEN JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY?

Reading the text backward from later Christian practices & beliefs about the written Torah & its abrogations,
interpreters & scholars have found a point of origin, even a legend of origin,
for their version of Christianity
in this chapter!

IN CONTRAST,
READING THE TEXT THROUGH LENSES COLORED BY YEARS OF IMMERSION
IN THE JEWISH RELIGIOUS LITERATURE OF THE TIMES AROUND JESUS & THE EUANGELISTS
PRODUCES A VERY DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON THE CHAPTER
FROM THE ONE THAT HAS COME TO BE
SO DOMINANT!!!

Anchoring Mark in its proper historical & cultural context, we find a very different text indeed,
one that reveals an inner Jewish controversy,
rather than an abrogation of the Torah
& denial of Judaism.